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Oral Contraceptives and Mood Disorders
Get PDFBackground information: Oral contraceptives are one of the most common types of birth control women use to prevent pregnancy. The most widely prescribed pill form contains estrogen and progesterone. Progesterone helps prevent pregnancy while estrogen controls menstrual bleeding. Today, researchers are investigating whether the use of oral contraceptives will increase the chances of developing a mood disorder such as depression or bipolar disorder. These disorders, though common, affect patients by interfering with their daily activities.
Principal focus: Behavioral changes were compared to determine if there is a significant increase in the risk of being diagnosed with a mood disorder (i.e. bipolar disorder and depression) among females 13 years and older who use oral contraceptives as their main form of birth control. This was compared to women who did not use oral contraceptives or other female barrier methods such as an IUD, patch, or ring.
Methodology: We systematically reviewed 70 clinical trials from UpToDate, PubMed, and the National Library of Medicine using search terms such as oral contraceptives, birth control pills, mood disorders, bipolar disorder, and depression. Limited searches to studies from 2015 to present, English, human trials, and females older than 13 years old. After further reduction, 20 studies were analyzed. Outcomes were accessed via interview assessments or surveys with clinical scores.
Results: While there appears to be some supporting evidence demonstrating a correlation between the usage of oral contraceptives leading to increased risk of mood disorders, there are many outside factors that can also influence mood. Therefore, more research is still needed to further understand how oral contraceptives alone without any external influence will affect a person’s mood
Ineffective Aggregation of Filipino-American Health Assessment Data & It\u27s Effect on Individualized Healthcare
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Filipino-Americans and their health care data seem to be difficult to find individually, and this is due to the continual grouping of this population with other Asian subgroups into the Asian-American population. The needs of the Filipino-American population are distinctly different from other Asian-American subgroups, and the underrepresentation leads to inadequate health care, lack of education within the community, and in some cases, disproportional deaths of Filipino-Americans.
Objective
To highlight the importance of adequate aggregation of health assessment data of a specific population on individualized care, in this paper, Filipino-Americans.
Summary of Findings
In the review of literature, it seems that aggregation of health assessment data specifically for Filipino-Americans depict major issues that may not reflect on the majority of the Asian-American population. The inadequate aggregation of Filipino-American healthcare data is also comparable to the experiences of Filipino-Canadians, who also face a similar issue in their country.
Proposal
Through a mixed-method study, the researchers aim to identify some of the more prominent health disparities of Filipinos in America, research possible interventions for those disparities, and create ways to prevent inadequate aggregation of Filipino-American healthcare data
Exploring the Connection between Social Media & Body-Image and the Impact of Art Therapy Interventions on a Woman’s Self-Esteem
Get PDFThis current study desired to illuminate the connection between social media and body image, as well as determining if art therapy interventions may impact a woman’s self-esteem. An individual’s body-image and self-esteem are very much correlated, as both concepts directly influence one another. Fourteen participants were recruited through social media after meeting the qualifications: being eighteen years old and/or older, identifying as a woman, and being active on social media. A mixed-methods research design was utilized for this research using both qualitative and quantitative approaches. Qualitative data was obtained through semi structured interviews, participant’s artwork, and reflections on their art. Art-based data was focused on the art assessment of self-portraits and on the art therapy intervention of found poetry with positive affirmations. Quantitative data was obtained through two questionnaires: Self Esteem Scale and the Social Media Appearance Preoccupation Scale. The results from this study illuminate the strong connection between social media and body-image, as well as the impact that art therapy interventions have on self-esteem. Recommendations for future research include broadening the population size, as well as expanding the age range of participants
Exploring Whether a Collage Art Intervention Enhances Levels of Resilience in Asian Americans Who Have Experienced Emotional Suppression
Get PDFEmerging research has shown cross-cultural differences when coping with negative emotions (Yoshie & Sauter, 2020). The Asian American population uniquely experiences both western and eastern cultures, which have different ideologies around expressing negative emotions. In Eastern Cultures, it is common to suppress negative emotions, while Western cultures find it more accepting. Suppressing emotions is a form of emotional dysregulation and can cause a negative effect on one’s psychopathology. This mix-methods study explores whether collage art-based intervention enhances levels of resilience with Asian Americans who have experienced emotional suppression. The theoretical orientation, Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), was used as a guide for participants to aim for psychological flexibility. Although the results found within the study do not support the hypothesis of collage art intervention enhancing resilience, the use of ACT demonstrates its effectiveness with the Asian American participants. With the results from this study, the student researcher aims to cultivate awareness regarding mental health stigmas as it is still prevalent within the Asian American population. Contributing to Asian American research may assist in normalizing and discovering different outlets of therapy
Aphids in the Rose
No full textThis collection of poems about a cancer patient’s journey vividly conjures the universal anxieties of the human condition as it confronts the simultaneous crises of bodily frailty and ecological precarity. Joan Baranow colorfully details the audacious cures in which we humans put our faith as we try to keep our worlds—inside and out—from falling apart. Modern medicine is at once celebrated and scrutinized in poems recognizing that scientific victories are as bruising as they are benevolent, that there is a cost to “force / assert[ing] its fact.” In looking to nature for answers, these poems bring to mind the Robert Frost of “Birches,” who would surely have approved of Baranow’s homage to a redwood tree’s dignified death: “that’s what I want,… / the full weight of gravity / pulling // with its fiery core, / whose hold never slips, / whose fist releases / such glossy, improbable leaves.”
–Jenna Le, MD, author of A History of the Cetacean American Diasporahttps://scholar.dominican.edu/faculty-authored-books/1007/thumbnail.jp
The Comparative Therapeutic Effects of Psilocybin Treatment and Antidepressant Medications in Adults Diagnosed with Depression
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Clay Use as Mindfulness for Women in Early Substance Use Recovery
Get PDFSubstance Use Disorders (SUDs) are an epidemic in the United States comprising 4.4 million women, including high rates of recidivism, and often accompanied by comorbid mental health issues. Recognizing the need for effective tools to support women in recovery, this research aligns the key tenets of present focus and personal control within Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) with various established mindfulness-based therapies, while using a Positive Psychology framework to conceptualize strategies to help enhance mindfulness in women in early recovery. Although engaging in clay work has been linked to mindfulness for its capacity to foster a state of presence and self-centering, scant art therapy research exists to date on the use of clay with SUDs population. Using a mixed methods approach within a positive psychology framework, this study explored the experiences of eleven women in early substance use recovery as they engaged in four structured and unstructured clay sessions. Quantitative results indicated no significant changes in mindfulness and well-being scales. In comparison, qualitative results showed that clay\u27s sensory and kinesthetic qualities along with its novel and positive energies during engagement elicited the use of metaphors, positive emotions, and enhanced mindfulness experiences such as self-awareness, attunement, and groundedness. Additionally, the women experienced meaning-making and positive changes in self-perception. Thus, the study highlights clay\u27s potential to support mindfulness, AA, and positive psychology strategies and calls for further research exploring the intersection of clay work, art therapy, mindfulness, and SUDS recovery
Out of the Unexpected: poems with Sappho
No full textPoets have a long tradition of correspondence with one another through the epistolary, various traditional forms such as the ode or sonnet and often use a given line as inspiration. This culminating collection of poems is no exception. Most of the poems are written with the remaining fragments of the ancient Greek poet Sappho as titles, a first or last line, and more often are placed within and throughout the poems. The fragments are italicized to both celebrate and enhance the reading of Sappho.
Sappho was born in 630 BC in Greece. From her nine books only one poem in its entirety remains. The rest are fragments that have been discovered in the mouths of mummified crocodile, persons, and were used to heat water when the Romans invaded Greece. An ancient garbage heap in Egypt revealed a treasure trove of her work in the late 1890’s inspiring the Victorian poets thereafter.
Sappho’s mystery is the negative space that continues to intoxicate her readers and has led to countless translations, summations, or even attempts to “finish” her poems. Many scholars continue to argue over her role, position and value; for example, she was a teacher but to what degree? Regardless of who and what Sappho was she is often limited to a lesbian poetess, since she did write poems about women. This would not have been unusual in a time where vases depicted lovers in various positions. And yet Sappho, as many of us today, fulfilled multiple roles from a player of the Lyre to a mother, a daughter, a wife, a lover, a teacher, a sister. It is in this vein that the thesis project was co-created with her fragments in and throughout poems that speak to longing to be known and found, that explore the lost stories of women both ancient and modern, much as Greece is today. A country that lives and thrives in the shadows of ancient remains of societies, reveals evidence of past peoples and influences that led me to further ponder ideas of who and what parts of our lives have also remained untold, hidden or even silenced. The fragments of Sappho served as departure and a return, as a kind of scaffolding that influenced, shaped and inspired these pages and would have otherwise not been possible
Plot to Kill the President: A Novel
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I was reenergized to look more closely at November 22,1963, by a chance encounter with Brian heath, a JFK aficionado, who had made some startling discoveries about the assassination. He had studied meticulously the Nix film and concluded that the fatal shot came from within the presidential limousine from the driver, William Greer. Similarly, that many of JFK’s cabinet members consisted of former OSS spooks, who dominated the CIA, and were major spokesman for the national security state and America’s global dominance.
They saw JFK’s rapprochement with Khrushchev after the Cuban missile crisis a threat to their world view. Vietnam was the breaking point as they saw in his policy of gradual withdrawal, the fall Ho Chi Minh City, as heralding the collapse of all of southeast Asia to the Chinese, described as the domino theory. Ironically, the latter never occurred.
Plot to Kill the President, is our answer to keeping alive the idealism of the new frontier and the coup d’état that transpired. Recent events around January 6 under Trump show how fragile democracy and its institutions are. These weaknesses were apparent during the JFK’s period when there rose a groundswell of powerful forces that called for his removal and dramatically altered the trajectory of American history.https://scholar.dominican.edu/books/1181/thumbnail.jp
Fatherhood and the Influence of Spouses Postpartum Depression on Relationship Satisfaction
Get PDFPostpartum depression and the effects it has on women have long been well studied and documented, however, little research has been done on how this illness affects these women’s partners. Considering the significant amount of research conducted on postpartum depression (PPD) from the perspective of women and the increasing trend towards family-oriented approaches, it is vital to further undertake studies concentrating on the male perspective of coping with a partner who has PPD. This in turn opens a new and important area of research for the clinical psychology community. This research proposal aims to focus on fathers’ coping styles when living with a partner suffering from postpartum depression as well as how it may influence/alter relationship satisfaction. This research proposal would include a mixed-method research design using both semi-structured, face-to-face interviews conducted individually and surveys. The sample size would include 20 couples, 10 fathers, and 10 mothers currently experiencing postpartum depression. Couples would be voluntarily recruited through a flier at their pediatricians’ offices. Inclusion criteria would include all participants being over the age of 18, having a partner with clinically diagnosed postpartum depression, living together with said partner, and being at least 2 months postpartum. The results from this study have not yet been collected but are presumed to reveal multiple themes describing the fathers’ journey through their partners’ postpartum depression. These findings would not only highlight a need for pre-emptive education on maternal PPD and more accessible resources but also assessing fathers’ emotional responses to parenthood and their partners’ depression.https://scholar.dominican.edu/nursing-student-research-posters/1019/thumbnail.jp